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MERV BENTON
Yield Not To Temptation (Deadric Malone [Don Robey]) Australia 1965 #6 Melbourne #27 Adelaide Single on W&G, B-side of Twenty Flight Rock, also on Mar-vel (USA) #401. Merv Benton was a popular rock'n'roll singer in the heart-throb mould, backed by The Tamlas. He did especially well in his home town of Melbourne, where he had 15 charting records 1964-67 (see I Got Burned), but retired from music after suffering disabling voice problems.
BOBBY 'BLUE' BLAND
Yield Not To Temptation (Deadric Malone [Don Robey]) USA 1962 Original version Single on Duke by gospel-influenced soul-r&b singer from Tennessee (b.1930). The writer credit is to Don Robey, owner of the Duke and Peacock labels, who used the pseudonym Deadric Malone. See also Normie Rowe - Call On Me, another Bobby Bland original and Deadric Malone composition. 
THE NIGHT-TIMERS FEATURING HERBIE GOINS
Yield Not To Temptation UK 1965 Red herring? Same song? Single on Parlophone, October 1965, B-side of The Music Played On. Herbie Goins (like Geno Washington) was a US serviceman who stayed on in the UK. The Night-timers were a club band who played, for example, at the Flamingo Club in Soho. Jazz-rock guitarist John McLaughlin, was a Night-timer for a while and played on this record (see Johann Haidenbauer's John McLaughlin Discography). Reference: Herbie Goins & The Night-timers page at British Beat Boom. Thanks to Terry Stacey for version alert.
THE WOMACK BROTHERS
Yield Not To Temptation (Bobby Womack) 1961 Red herring Same title but not the same song as 'Yield Not To Temptation' by Merv Benton. There are a number of songs with the title Yield Not To Temptation, usually in the gospel genre. Corrections or comments? Contact the writer. |